Ill Har 4II
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Illugi bryndœlaskáld, Poem about Haraldr harðráði 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 285.
Brauzt ‘you subjugated’
brjóta (verb; °brýtr; braut, brutu; brotinn): to break, destroy
Míkjál ‘Michael’
notes
[1] Míkjál ‘Michael’: Michael IV Katallaktos was Byzantine emperor from 11 April 1034 until his death on 10 December 1041. He ruled jointly with Empress Zoe.
môgum ‘brothers-in-law’
mágr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): brother-, father-, or son-in-law
[2] môgum: mgu 39, F
heim ‘home’
sem ‘as’
frôgum ‘we [I] have heard’
sonr ‘son’
sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
[3] sonr: son 39, F, sunr FskBˣ, FskAˣ
kennings
sonr Buðla‘Buðli’s son ’
= Atli
Buðli’s son → Atli
Buðla ‘Buðli’s’
kennings
sonr Buðla‘Buðli’s son ’
= Atli
Buðli’s son → Atli
bauð ‘invited’
bjóða (verb; °býðr; bauð, buðu; boðinn (buð- Thom¹ 5²n.)): offer, order, invite
[3] bauð sínum: rauð sinni F
sunn ‘the southern’
sunn- ((prefix)): [Sunn, southern] < Sunnlǫnd (noun n.)
[4] sunn‑: sann‑ J2ˣ, ‘sonn‑’ FskBˣ, sund‑ Hr
notes
[4] sunnlǫnd ‘the southern lands’: Sicily, southern Italy and North Africa. For these campaigns, see also Hharð Gamv 2, Hharð Lv 10, ÞjóðA Sex 2-8, ÞjóðA Lv 4, Bǫlv Hardr 3-5, Valg Har 1-4, ÞSkegg Hardr, Þfisk Lv 2-3, ESk Geisl 51-3VII, Sigfús Blöndal 1978, 59-71 and Jesch 2001a, 88-9.
lǫnd ‘ lands’
notes
[4] sunnlǫnd ‘the southern lands’: Sicily, southern Italy and North Africa. For these campaigns, see also Hharð Gamv 2, Hharð Lv 10, ÞjóðA Sex 2-8, ÞjóðA Lv 4, Bǫlv Hardr 3-5, Valg Har 1-4, ÞSkegg Hardr, Þfisk Lv 2-3, ESk Geisl 51-3VII, Sigfús Blöndal 1978, 59-71 and Jesch 2001a, 88-9.
Haraldr ‘Haraldr’
rǫndu ‘with the shield’
rǫnd (noun f.; °dat. -/-u; rendr/randir): shield, shield-rim
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Haraldr campaigned in Africa as the leader of the Byzantine Emperor Michael Katallaktos’s Varangian army.
[2-3]: The event alluded to in the embedded clauses, namely, how Atli invited his brothers-in-law, the Gjúkungar, to his stronghold to kill them, is described in Akv and Am (NK 240-63). See also SnE 1998, I, 48. Atli was the ON name for Attila, the leader of the Huns (d. 453).
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